Joanne Jacobs
'Restorative' backlash: Legislators propose tougher school discipline
Legislators are "moving to make it easier to kick disruptive students out of school" in response to "a pandemic-era surge in school gun...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 22, 2023
- 1 min
Conservatives shouldn't give up on public education
Public education is progressive in its goals, yet schools are conservative institutions, writes Robert Pondiscio in National Affairs....
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 22, 2023
- 2 min
Conservative teachers are quiet
Teachers who are on the political right "speak in whispers behind closed doors," says Daniel Buck in an interview with Rick Hess....
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 22, 2023
- 3 min
Ukrainian refugee girl flees unsafe San Francisco school
Yana and her mother fled Ukraine and found a new home with an aunt in San Francisco -- until the 13-year-old girl started Marina Middle...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 15, 2023
- 1 min
Unvaccinated NYC teachers reported to FBI: Is this true?
New York City teachers were reported to the FBI for refusing to be vaccinated, charges a lawyer for teachers who were fired due to the...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 10, 2023
- 1 min
Teachers are quitting because of classroom chaos
Soft discipline policies make teachers' jobs much harder, writes Daniel Buck, who's taught in a variety of schools. A friend quit after...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 8, 2023
- 3 min
Do parents know best? ESAs go for robots, rabbits, roping lessons
If a homeschooled child learns to code a toy robot, care for a pet rabbit or take cowboy roping lessons, is that an educational expense?...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 2, 2023
- 1 min
Classroom libraries aren't a crime in Florida
The "great Florida classroom library freak-out of 2023" is based on faulty reporting, confusing directives from local school officials...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 30, 2023
- 2 min
Unsafe at school
Angry teachers in Newport News, Virginia blame lax discipline for a 6-year-old shooting his first-grade teacher, write Ben Finley and...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 12, 2023
- 2 min
Scientists, engineers, chefs, gardeners become freelance teachers
An ecosystem of innovative schools and teaching specialists is growing in South Florida's Broward County, writes Ron Matus on ReimaginED....
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 5, 2023
- 2 min
Akron teachers threaten strike over school safety
"We as educators are being asked to accept more and more violent language, violent assaults, violent behaviors from our students and we...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 7, 2022
- 1 min
Don't push good teachers over the fiscal cliff
School districts are hiring more staffers, even as enrollments decline. When federal pandemic relief funds run out in 2024, who will be...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 17, 2022
- 1 min
Teachers were more anxious about Covid than health-care workers
Teachers were more anxious than health care workers -- or anyone else -- during the first year of the pandemic, according to a newly...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 3, 2022
- 2 min
Excluding Ophelia: Here's how to justify bias against Asian achievers
Asian-American students teachers earn high grades in advanced classes because teachers hold them to high expectations, argues Jennifer...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 3, 2022
- 2 min
When teachers believe, students achieve
"All students can learn" was the school district's slogan, printed on the stationery back in the era when mission statements were new....
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 27, 2022
- 2 min
Teacher, counselor, therapist: Is it too much?
As students' emotional and mental health needs soar, teachers are being asked to serve as ad hoc counselors, therapists and social...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 24, 2022
- 1 min
No critical race theory? No student teachers
A California ed school won’t send student teachers to a nearby school district that has banned critical race theory, reports Jill...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 19, 2022
- 2 min
Fuzzy civics: Teachers don't value knowledge
I learned about separation of powers, checks and balances and the three separate and equal branches of government -- executive,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 9, 2022
- 1 min
Are schools too quick to report suspected abuse, neglect?
Teachers, counselors and other school staff are required to report suspected child abuse and neglect. In New York City, from August 2019...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 26, 2022
- 1 min
Public trusts teachers, but not so much on racism or gender
Sixty-three percent of people trust local public-school teachers according to a new poll by PDK, an educators' group, reports Libby...
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